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Arts feature

Europe's eye-popping first glimpse of the Americas

The earliest depictions of the Americas were eye-popping, and shaped European art, says Laura Gascoigne

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

America: The Complete Plates, 1590–1602 Theodore de Bry, edited by Michiel Van Groesen

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Coronavirus has cast a dampener over this year’s Mayflower 400 celebrations due to a hidden enemy with which the Pilgrim Fathers were all too familiar: within months of their arrival in America more than half of them had died of a disease whose principal symptom was violent coughing.

There was no official artist on the Mayflower.

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